Workers facing redundancy at Ineos’s Grangemouth refinery and construction giant ISG have been offered a job lifeline by ScottishPower.
The Glasgow headquartered clean energy giant is looking to recruit 1,000 people next year and urged under threat staff at the firms to get in touch to secure a new role.
It says there’s a clear skills cross over and it can help find new careers in its electricity networks business as it ramps up investment.
With electricity demand set to double, Britain is undergoing the biggest ever rewiring of its grid.
In September, ScottishPower announced it was doubling its UK investment to £24bn – with £11bn to be spent in Scotland – as grid owners upgrade and build new power lines to cope with demand and increase capacity.
The company confirmed £5.4bn worth of supply chain contracts with UK and Irish businesses last week but it says it also needs to recruit more of its own workforce to get the vital projects built.
Sarah McNulty, People and Organisation Director, said: “The massive investment in electricity networks is not just good for modernising critical Scottish infrastructure but for jobs too.
“This is one of our largest ever recruitment programmes and one of the largest in Scotland. Workers at both Ineos and ISG will have the sought after skills we are looking for and we have the jobs to match.
“We’re also more than happy to look at how we help people make the move into power networks from oil and gas if they’re looking for a career switch so anyone interested should get in touch.
“These are skilled, secure and well-paid roles that will offer a long-term career helping build, operate and maintain the electricity network across central southern Scotland and we also have roles across our renewables business too.
“We recognise it’s a concerning time for people whose livelihoods are affected and that’s why we’ve reached out to the HR teams at both companies to flag our opportunities and help get them into new roles as quickly as possible.”
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